User talk:CamaeMason

Dido Belle's painting
"The portrait of the two women is highly unusual in 18th-century British art for showing a black woman as the equal of her white companion, rather than as a servant or slave"

other source said differently though, they were not portrayed as equal, Dido Elizabeth Belle was still exoticised in the painting, turban, holding tray of fruit and flower, different clothing, a weird funny pose, all thpse element were usually reserved for enslaved people in painting, her portrait was still very much marginalized but she were treated better hence why she is at least looking at the viewer instead of being subservient to Elizabeth, but still wasn't Elizabeth equal.

and the painting is well almost a fantasy, irl she was treated well but nowhere near Elizabeth

Wentwort12 (talk) 15:21, 19 March 2023 (UTC)